2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

Maybe. Most hotels in the city probably will require a weekend stay, and staying in the suburbs has its own issues. The bigger issue is I'd be dragging the wife along. Friday and Saturday would be more for her, and Sunday for me. She is not a wrestling fan.
I could convince her to come with me to Wrestlemania if I also gave her a weekend in NOLA. Probably be a long trip otherwise
Bottom line, we've been to New Orleans dozens of times and will go again when it costs a third of what it'd cost us that weekend. There's other places we can go and other things we can and need to do with that money.

 

Heck, if I lived closer to NOLA, I could see meeting up with one of you guys from the board and splitting everything.

But that's just a pipe dream. Maybe one day I'll get to go to Mania.

 

Bad News Barrett?

Is he going to start talking about beer-bellied sharecroppers?

 

I don't get it. They've changed his character so many times, and he's only been in the company for what, three years? Cena's been with them for more than 10 years and has only had one character change. WTF.

 

Technically, I've figured Cena for three characters: 1. The young and eager rookie. 2. Thuganomics Cena, and 3. the current version.

With Barrett, it's like they can't figure out how to bring how his attributes, which are 1. He's a heckuva talker and 2. He has the look that they should like.

 

See, I don't really count his rookie self as one of them because it wasn't long -- not even a year, IIRC -- before he debuted the rapping gimmick.

 

Well, to each their own.

Looking at my original quote now, I can actually imagine Barrett, in his strong British accent, insulting fans with "Ale-bodied sharecroppers".

 

This Barrett gimmick is awful. He's one of the best they have on the roster -- especially on the mic -- and this is what they turn him into? That's the best they could come up with?

 

Just got back from Smackdown taping. Barrett shot me a dirty look when I yelled, "Bad news. Wade Barrett's push is over." And I was third row, so definitely close enough for him to hear.

 

Barrett's "good news, bad news" makes me have flashbacks to childhood and too many episodes of "Animaniacs" and the segment of "Good Idea, Bad Idea."

 

Ha! I'd like to see if they air that part.

 

Sadly, they weren't shooting at that point. He was at his podium, but the camera guys were still getting set up.

Very disappointed that no one in the crowd would join me in cheering for Damien Sandow or 3MB. And the Real Americans couldn't get any love except for a couple of us. If a team with that gimmick and a former Sooner on it can't get over in Oklahoma, they can't get over anywhere.